Jeff Martin

No-Tiller and Strip-Tiller, Mount Pulaski, Ill.

CLASSROOM #2: Tips and Tweaks for Raising High-Yielding Strip-Tilled Corn

The challenges of strip-tilling corn aren’t lost on Jeff Martin, but he and the family have devised a comprehensive plan involving both their machinery and input management to keep corn yields high and input costs low while managing residue as necessary.

Martin outlines how they use a vertical-tillage tool and Ortho seeder to manage corn stubble and seed cover crops after harvest to rejuvenate fields ahead of the next growing season. He also describes the setup and reasoning for their John Deere strip-till bar and cover various precision upgrades made recently to their planter to get the best results for striptilled corn.